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Author: Sara Backer Publisher: Penguin Group ISBN: 0425230090 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 417
Book Description
Japan itself is the comic hero of this sweet and funny, sad and inspiring novel. Gaby Stanton, an American professor living in Japan, has lost her job teaching English at Shizuyama University. (No one will tell her exactly why.) Alex Thorn, an American psychologist, is mourning his son, a Shizuyama exchange student who was killed in an accident. (No one will tell him exactly how.) Alex has come to this utterly foreign place to find the truth, and now Gaby is serving as his translator and guide. The key to mastering Japanese, she keeps telling him, is understanding what's not being said. And in this "deft and delightful" (Karen Joy Fowler) novel, the unsaid truths about everything from work and love to illness and death cast a deafening silence-and tower in the background like Mount Fuji itself.
Author: Sara Backer Publisher: Penguin Group ISBN: 0425230090 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 417
Book Description
Japan itself is the comic hero of this sweet and funny, sad and inspiring novel. Gaby Stanton, an American professor living in Japan, has lost her job teaching English at Shizuyama University. (No one will tell her exactly why.) Alex Thorn, an American psychologist, is mourning his son, a Shizuyama exchange student who was killed in an accident. (No one will tell him exactly how.) Alex has come to this utterly foreign place to find the truth, and now Gaby is serving as his translator and guide. The key to mastering Japanese, she keeps telling him, is understanding what's not being said. And in this "deft and delightful" (Karen Joy Fowler) novel, the unsaid truths about everything from work and love to illness and death cast a deafening silence-and tower in the background like Mount Fuji itself.
Author: Sara Backer Publisher: Berkley Trade ISBN: 9780425183366 Category : Americans Languages : en Pages : 420
Book Description
Mount Fuji is the backdrop in this story of Gaby Stanton, an American professor living in Japan, who helps Alex Thorn investigate the death of his son at Shizuyama University.
Author: Gene L. Dodaro Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 1437922589 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 101
Book Description
The 7th report on TARP focuses on the initial assistance the gov¿t. provided to Amer. International Group, Inc. (AIG) ¿ an org. with over 200 co. operating in over 130 countries and jurisdictions and $830 billion in assets ¿ in Sept. 2008 and the restructuring of that assistance in Nov. 2008 and March 2009. The unfolding crisis threatened the stability of the U.S. banking system and the solvency of a number of financial institutions, including AIG. This report describes: (1) the basis for the fed. assistance; (2) the nature and type of assistance and steps intended to protect the government¿s interest; and (3) selected indicators of the status of fed. assistance and AIG¿s financial condition. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important report.
Author: Orice Williams Brown Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 1437980481 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 117
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Assistance provided by the Dept. of the Treasury under TARP, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to Amer. International Group, Inc. (AIG) represents one of the federal government's largest investments in a private-sector institution since the financial crisis began in 2008. AIG is a holding company that, through its subsidiaries, engaged in a broad range of insurance and insurance related activities in the U.S. and abroad. This report discusses: (1) trends in AIG's financial condition; (2) trends in the unwinding of AIG Financial Products and the financial condition of AIG's insurance companies; and (3) the status of the government's exposure to AIG. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944) Publisher: ISBN: Category : Communism Languages : en Pages : 588
Author: Thomas H. Stanton Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199916004 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 291
Book Description
Why did some firms weather the financial crisis and others not? This book investigates inner workings of over a dozen major financial and nonfinancial companies, reveals what went wrong and proposes a remedy. Regulators too must learn from past mistakes and require "constructive dialogue" for companies they supervise.
Author: Jennifer L. Carr Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9401114668 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 448
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This book represents the tenth edition of what has become an established reference work, MAJOR COMPANIES OF THE Guide to the FAR EAST & AUSTRALASIA. This volume has been carefully researched and updated since publication of the previous arrangement of the book edition, and provides more company data on the most important companies in the region. The information in the This book has been arranged in order to allow the reader to book was submitted mostly by the companies themselves, find any entry rapidly and accurately. completely free of charge. Company entries are listed alphabetically within each section; The companies listed have been selected on the grounds of in addition three indexes are provided on coloured paper at the size of their sales volume or balance sheet or their the back of the book. importance to the business environment of the country in which they are based. The alphabetical index to companies throughout East Asia lists all companies having entries in the book irrespective of their The book is updated and published every year. Any company main country of operation. that considers it is eligible for inclusion in the next edition of MAJOR COMPANIES OF THE FAR EAST & AUSTRALASIA, The alphabetical index to companies within each country of should write to the publishers. No charge whatsoever is made East Asia lists companies by their country of operation. for publishing details about a company.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309173574 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 437
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U.S. industry faced a gloomy outlook in the late 1980s. Then, industrial performance improved dramatically through the 1990s and appears pervasively brighter today. A look at any group of industries, however, reveals important differences in the factors behind the resurgenceâ€"in industry structure and strategy, research performance, and location of activitiesâ€"as well as similarities in the national policy environment, impact of information technology, and other factors. U.S. Industry in 2000 examines eleven key manufacturing and service industries and explores how they arrived at the present and what they face in the future. It assesses changing practices in research and innovation, technology adoption, and international operations. Industry analyses shed light on how science and technology are applied in the marketplace, how workers fare as jobs require greater knowledge, and how U.S. firms responded to their chief competitors in Europe and Asia. The book will be important to a wide range of readers with a stake in U.S. industrial performance: corporate executives, investors, labor representatives, faculty and students in business and economics, and public policymakers.
Author: Robert R. Locke Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780198774068 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 378
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Every nation likes to believe myths about itself. Americans' belief in the superiority of their managerial know-how seemed to be among those most solidly based in reality. Yet, Locke argues, despite its universal claims, American managerialism has never been more than a cultural peculiarity, one whose claims to superiority had not been proved but assumed, on the premise that the best economy must have the best management. That premise, moreover, has not served American managerialism particularly well, for in the 1970s a gap opened up between the mystique of American management and the realty of a mediocre American managerial performance. The 'mystique' collapsed and those looking for best practice began to look elsewhere. Locke traces the evolution of American management in the postwar era - the phenomenon once described by Churchill as that 'clear cut, logical, mass production style of thought'. He goes on to discuss in detail the views of such business writers as Chandler, Reich, Senge, and Deming. But the force of his critique rests on a thorough examination of alternative forms of management that grew up in West Germany and Japan during the past decades. He argues that these alternative management forms have done a better job managing capitalist economies since the 1970s than has American managerialism. But the book is not an essay in negativism. In the final chapter the author suggests paths that American management can follow in order to fulfil its original promise.
Author: Sara Backer
Author: Sara Backer
Author: Sara Backer
Author: Gene L. Dodaro
Author: Orice Williams Brown
Author: United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944)
Author: Thomas H. Stanton
Author: Jennifer L. Carr
Author: National Research Council
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Author: Robert R. Locke